Year-End Lists

The Boston Globe: Our 50 Favorite Albums of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022]

• Zach Bryan
  Zach Bryan
• But Here We Are
  Foo Fighters
• Since Time Is Gravity
  Natural Information Society
• Sundial
  Noname
• Dear Departed
  Sam Burton
• Hackney Diamonds
  The Rolling Stones
• 10,000 gecs
  100 gecs
• Solar Music
  Butcher Brown
• Love in Exile
  Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily
• The Source
  Kenny Barron
• The Open Book Sessions
  Ronica & The Blazing Stars
• The Fatalist
  Buffalo Nichols
• The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
  Chappell Roan
• Michael
  Killer Mike
• Strays
  Margo Price
• The Enduring Spirit
  Tomb Mold
• Get Behind The Wheel
  Eilen Jewell
• Weathervanes
  Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
• Zodiac Suite
  Aaron Diehl & The Knights
• Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog
  Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet
• Struggler
  Genesis Owusu
• The Comeback Kid
  Marnie Stern
• Ready to Eat
  Beauty School Dropout
• Old Soul
  Stephen Marley
• For Motivational Use Only, Vol. 1
  Jermaine Dupri / Curren$y
• I Am Not There Anymore
  The Clientele
• The Record
  Boygenius
• Lean In
  Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke
• The Biggest Life
  Summer Dean
• Goodtime Charlie
  Mick Flannery
• Red Moon in Venus
  Kali Uchis
• Yard
  Slow Pulp
• Quaranta
  Danny Brown
• Just Won't Burn
  Susan Tedeschi
• Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard
  Kris Davis
• Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
  Caroline Polachek
• everything is alive
  Slowdive
• False Lankum
  Lankum
• Where Are We
  Joshua Redman
• The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
  Mitski
• Golden State
  Logan Ledger
• The Loveliest Time
  Carly Rae Jepsen
• Jaguar II
  Victoria Monét
• 6
  Kenny Mason
• 72 Seasons
  Metallica
• Good Living Is Coming for You
  Sweeping Promises
• The Third Mind 2
  The Third Mind
• Mélusine
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Black Classical Music
  Yussef Dayes
• The Soul of Epirus vol​..II
  Petroloukas Halkias & Vasilis Kostas